Acta Physica Sinica

QUANTUM NON-DEMOLITION MEASUREMENT IN NONLINEAR DOUBLE-RESONANCE FOR TWO BEAMS

WANG KAI-GE, XU QIU-SHENG, YANG GUO-JIAN, 北京师范大学物理系，北京 100875

Published Jan 1, 1998• 0 citations

Abstract

A quantum theoretical model for the system of interaction between two beams and N atoms of Λ-type three-level has been established.The dynamical behavior and the features of the optical quantum non-demolition (QND) measurement are discussed in details.The results show that the efficient QND measurement can be well performed at the operation of the nonlinear double-resonance for two beams.

DOI: 10.7498/aps.47.1641

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